Package blank and package



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PACKAGE BLANK AND PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4,1920.

www@ y A Pmemedmy 1922.

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JASQN H. GREENSTREET, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.,

Application filed .Tune 4, 1920. Serial No. 386,541.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that l, JAsoN H. GREEN- sfrnnnr, acitizen of the United States, re siding' at indianapolis, in the countyof Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful PackageBlank and Package, of which the following is a specification., Y

The object of my invention is to produce a sheet-and-cleat wirebound boxblank, and completed box, in which the sheet and cleat sections areassembled to torni the blank with the several sheet and cleat sectionsmaterially separated 'from each other upon the binding wires, so thatwhen the sections are first assembled, a material surplus of bindingwire exists at each corner, this surplus being subsequently twisted uponitself so as to draw the sections iirmly together at the box corners,thereby making it possible to subject binding wires to adequate tensionat cach of the box corners.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention. Fig. 1 is aperspective view of my improved package in partially assembledcondition; F ig. 2 a plan of the blank.

In the drawings, 10, 1() indicate a series of box-side-forming sectionsconsisting of sheets and cleats of a common type. These sections areconnected with each other by binding` wires 11, which are secured to thesheets and cleats by staples 12.

rlhe sections 10 are associated with the binding wires in such mannerthat the adjacent edges oit the sheets are materially separated fromeach other, thus providing surplus portions 18 ot the binding wiresbetween each pair ot sections. The usual end portions 14 of thebindingwires are projected beyond the first and final sections 10. By thisarrangement, when the sections 10 are folded into position to form toursides ol a package, the portions 13 of the wires become Ushaped, asindicated in Fig. 1, and these U-shaped portions are then grasped by asuitable twisting tool and twisted together to form portions 13 (Fig. 1)in such manner as to draw the adjacent portions of adjacent sections 10tightly together. The portions 13 may then be bent down against thesections 10, as indicated at the lower righthand corner or Fig. 1. Theends 14; are twisted together, in closing the package, as indicated at1e', in the usual manner.

I claim as my invention:

1.y A blank for wirebound packages comprising a series of side-formingsections formed 'for angular association with adjacent sections, saidsections being connected together by binding wires and in such spacedrelationship to each other that Ushaped surplus of binding wire isformed at the corners of the associated sections.

2. A wireboundf package comprising a series of side-forming sectionsassociated with each other in angular relationship edge to edge, andconnected together by binding wires having surplus at the packagecorners, said surplus being twisted upon itself to place adjacentportions of the wire under tension and lirmly hold the adjacent edges ciadjacent side-forming sections firmly together.

3. The method of making wirebound boxes, which comprises assemblingprevi ously-formed independent cleats in longitudinal series withconnecting sheet material and longitudinally extending wires, the cleatsand connecting sheet material forming a series of package-forming sides,and the wires having such lengths asto provide excessive materialbetween adjacent edges of adjacent sideforming sheets-and-cleats; andtwisting the excessive wire portions after the side-forming members havebeen brought to package-fomning relationship.

.4?. The method of making wirebound boxes, which vcomprises assemblingpreviously-iiormcd independent cleats in longitudinal series withconnecting sheet material and longitudinally extending wires, the cleatsand connecting sheet material forming series of package-iliorming sides,and the wires having such lengths as to provide excessive materialbetween adjacent edges of adjacent side-forming sheets-and-cleats.

5. A wirebound box blank comprising a plurality of sections iexiblyconnected together by wires and separated from each other a distancesuliicient to provide a sur-- plus of wire which may be doubled andtwisted to draw the adjacent sections to box forming positions.

6. A wirebound box blank comprising a plurality oi' sections flexiblyconnected together by wires and spaced such a distanceapart that theadjacent edges of the sections will be primarily in non-maintainablerelation to each other and subsequently associated in box torni bytaking up the surplus intermediate portions of lWire.

7. A flexible box-blank which is composed ot a pluralit)T o'f sectionstlexibljT connected together by wires and the length `olf `which blankis substantially greater than the dii'nensions of the finished boxrequire and subsequently-associated inbox form by taking up the surplusintermediate,portionsof Wire.

8. The process -o-li1naking aY Wirebound bonn comprising. theapplicationfol' the binding' nires'oia length to-orm a surplus at one ormore ofthe corners ofli the box7 and doubling andtWisting oflthefsurplusupon .itself to tighten the Wire around theA boX 9. The process olimaking i a `Wirebound box,` comorising` Vthe tighteningof the Wiresbetweenathe ends thereof, as Well asy the twistingottheends of theVWirestogether,

so that each Wire is tightened around the box and mechanically tightenedon each cornera ll), The process ol making a wirebound box, comprisingthe Wiring of the sections of the blank together, with the sectionsseparated from each other a distance greater than is necessary for thedimensions olfl the inishedwbox, applying the sections to the heads orend Walls of the box, thereby form* ing surplusI bendsfiirtheuWirebetween Athe sections, `at one'or more ofithe corners ot the box, andtwistingr these surplus 4bends to tighten the Wires.

ln yWitness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Indianapolisiindiana, 'this {ii-'st day of June,4 A. D. one thousand 'nine hundredand twenty.

JASON H. GREENSTREETy

